I'm not alone in finding Japanese museums about earthquakes and tsunamis interesting and impactful; I know my friend Catherine who travelled with me in Took last month is the same. This episode will test out whether it's just the two of us, or if more of you share this feeling - a yearning to understand more about these kinds of disasters, to get to know more about the human stories behind them, and a keen desire to share in the "hope tourism" equation of the scenarios.
In this episode, I talk about three parts of my recent trip to Japan that fit under this idea of "hope tourism" - and not "dark tourism". As well as visiting the "Kaze no Denwa", we spent many hours at two new museums in northern Japan: the Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, and the Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum in Futaba, Fukushima. We both found these visits so impactful, and I'm still mulling over a lot of what I saw and learnt there to this day.
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159 Languages and Travel
158 When Travel Days Go Wrong
157 Uncommon Destinations
156 How Travel Stretches Our Comfort Zone
155 What's So Special About India?
154 Dancing on Your Travels
153 Reading Books to Inspire Travel
152 Transformative Travel
151 Scuba Diving Travel
150 Post-Denmark Thoughtful Travel Debrief
149 - Class and Privilege When We Travel
148 - Solo Travelling
147 - Ten Years a Nomad with Nomadic Matt Kepnes
146 - Travelling in Iran
145 - Volunteering Experiences While Travelling
144 - Grief, Travel and Change
143 - Helpful or Harmful Travel with Jan Fran
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